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Re: Query "Zhuchka" Reply
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:20:59 -0500
From: Dolinin <dolinin@facstaff.wisc.edu>
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>Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:44:54 +0900
>From: "Akiyoshi Miyake [ISO-2022-JP] ^[$B;0Bp!!><NI^[(B"
> <aki-myk@yamayuri.comp.metro-u.ac.jp>
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>I am now reading <Selected Letters of V Nabokov1940-1977>, but I do not
>understand the following sentences, from a letter to Prof.Gleb Struve,
>dated April 15, 1971, _SL of VN_ p482:
>
>I also hope the Soviet commentators will not scoop my new conjecture
>that the word zhuchka was born below stairs of Zhuzhu and Bizhu, i.e.,
>the names of the master's lapdogs.
Dolinin reply. See VN's commentary to EO, Chapter Five, II, 10
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:20:59 -0500
From: Dolinin <dolinin@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:44:54 +0900
>From: "Akiyoshi Miyake [ISO-2022-JP] ^[$B;0Bp!!><NI^[(B"
> <aki-myk@yamayuri.comp.metro-u.ac.jp>
>
>I am now reading <Selected Letters of V Nabokov1940-1977>, but I do not
>understand the following sentences, from a letter to Prof.Gleb Struve,
>dated April 15, 1971, _SL of VN_ p482:
>
>I also hope the Soviet commentators will not scoop my new conjecture
>that the word zhuchka was born below stairs of Zhuzhu and Bizhu, i.e.,
>the names of the master's lapdogs.
Dolinin reply. See VN's commentary to EO, Chapter Five, II, 10